[11B3]

Another reminder of how far we've gone down that slippery slope as a nation. When one spends too much time in here, the cumulative effect of these stories tends to be a bit overwhelming sometimes. I just hope that we have enough guts to get down and do the hard job of eliminating those on the left - not only in politics, but everywhere.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

My wifie had to stop reading this book. Her blood pressure got out of control. Public school education may be irredeemable. Vouchers are the only thing that will save our children.

[Noachian]

This type of indoctrination, for children, into the world of touchy-feely socialism can have unintended consequenses for the left. Text books are only part of the problem.

Although children are more malleable than adults children are also more in tune with basic natural drives such as aggression and dominance. That's why there are schoolyard bullys and classroom butterflys.

Historically teachers have had the common sense to channel these aggressive drives into sports and social events. But, the left is a few bricks short of a full load when it comes to common sense, so they try to suppress these basic drives by feminizing boys, and if that fails medicating them.

What kind of adults do you get when you suppress natural aggression and dominance drives in children? If a child can't assert his basic instincts does he lose them or just bottle them up until he's an adult?

So, children learn from the touchy-feely text books how to be passive and PC, go through the system, and are turned out by the thousands into the world with bottled up emotions. Is this a bomb waiting to go off? Yes. Will liberal/socialists take responsibility? No. Will parents be blamed? Yes. Will we have a safer society? No.

[Adder]

How do you stop this when parents have lost control of the system to the "educrats" who all know what is best? You cannot talk to them, you can not make demands and you certainly cannot "change the system". It is far too entrenched. They control the information and fill the kids with whatever mush they desire...the indoctrination du jour.

They enforce it with punishments if some kid objects: suspensions, detentions etc. Even going so far as to castigate parents as out of touch or trouble makers or what have you if one objects too strongly to say portraying gays in a positive light. Who truly wnats their kids to suffer from the "powers that be?"

I tried to give my kids the "real story" as it were on several subjects, especially American History which is being taught as non-patrioticly, Howard Zinn-like and as a denigration of this country. [Try reading some of the crap that passes as a textbook.]. The results are disheartening. Far from making much of a difference, most kids will simply wilt under the reinforcement from the school versus the attempts of the parents to set things aright.

It is disgusting, angering and frustrating!

The travesty or rather emboldened strategy portrays males as idiots and fools. This just does not simply happen in schools...check out any commercial. How many males are protrayed positively anymore? Even air conditioning commercials feature women discussing how quiet the unit is!NO men ever discuss such things? I mean, this is their entire campaign. You can see other examples daily, hourly.

I mention this because traditional American values are under a barrage of assault and the schools are winning. The kids that graduate are not "more tolerant" they are brainwashed and ignorant, can't think and can only spew some politically correct diatribes that are bogus and false. Yet they make voting decisions based soley on what they are taught! How much easier to advance the idea of collectivism if you have never taught that the individual is the most important cog in the system!

I am not suggesting that we return to some system where only men are portrayed only positively or only whites are in charge. Far from it. But we should promote the ideals of this country and teach pride in our accomplishments as a nation in the struggles to allow everyone to succede...to share the bounty. What is being taught now is that those who acheived in the past have to have their bounty taken away. To me, that is the crux of what is wrong.

[The Great RJ]

The dumbed down politically correct pap, not to mention the pseudo science that fills our children's textbooks assures that they will not be educated members of society as adults.

[ladylib]

Ms. Ravitch didn't include this in her book:

http://www.educationnews.org/Harcourt-Steck-Vaughn-now-has-a-publishing-guideline-forbidding-their-illustrators-to-draw-photograph-anybody-writing-left-handed.htm

[VOA]

Diane Ravitch's new book, The Language Police

My favorite moment from the interview Diane Ravitch had with conservative Jewish
radio show host Dennis Prager:
When Ravitch revealed that this new censorship even bans portraying Jews as physicians.

I thought Prager might break a rib with his laughter at that one.

[LiteKeeper]

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